Associate Manager - HR Analytics

Sutherland; India; Remote; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Sutherland is seeking an HR Data & Insights Analyst to join the North America HR Data & Insights team. The role focuses on ad hoc analysis, data preparation, quality assurance, analytics-focused Workday reporting, and Power BI dashboard support.

The ideal candidate will transform HR data from fragmented inputs into trusted, governance-driven insight products, contributing to prioritized analytical projects within the team’s roadmap.

Qualifications

• Hands-on HR data analytics or people analytics experience.
• Experience with ad hoc workforce analyses and data visualization.
• Proficiency in Excel and data cleaning, validation, and reconciliation.
• Experience with Workday discovery boards, worksheets, or dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Perform ad hoc HR analyses covering headcount, turnover, recruiting funnel metrics, and compensation equity.
• Prepare data, validate datasets, and document findings and limitations.
• Develop charts, tables, and draft findings for review by the onshore team.
• Maintain Power BI dashboards with data validation and controlled enhancements.

Skills

HR analytics

Data storytelling

Excel

DAX (Power BI)

Critical thinking

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in HR/IS/Business/Data Analytics

Tools

Power BI

Workday reporting

SQL

Python

Job description

We are looking for Immediate joiners in HR Analytics.

Candidates need to be strong on HR Analytics, Power BI, Dashboards, knowledge of Workday (preferred).

Location : Remote

Shift : 6:30pm- 3:30am

Job Title - HR Data & Insights Analyst

• Department - HR Data & Insights
• Employment Type - Full-Time
• Location - Office Chennai / Open for work from home
• Shift - 6.30 pm to 3.30 am
• Level - To be confirmed

Role Summary

The HR Data & Insights Analyst supports the North America HR Data & Insights team in producing trusted, actionable workforce insights. The role combines ad hoc data analysis, data preparation and quality assurance, analytics-focused Workday reporting, and Power BI dashboard support. Working under the direction of the Sr. Manager, HR Data & Insights and in close partnership with the onshore analytics team, the Analyst helps transform HR data from fragmented inputs into accurate, governed, scalable insight products. The role contributes to prioritized analytical projects and reporting products through the team's established intake and roadmap process.

Key Responsibilities

• Complete ad hoc HR and workforce analyses across priority areas such as headcount planning, turnover and retention, recruiting funnel metrics, compensation equity, performance management, and engagement.
• Translate defined business questions into an analysis approach; source appropriate data, prepare and validate datasets, conduct analysis, and document findings and limitations.
• Prepare, clean, merge, transform, and validate HR data from approved sources; identify trends, exceptions, relationships, and data limitations that support decision-ready insights.
• Conduct descriptive and diagnostic analyses, including trend, variance, and segmentation analysis, and prepare charts, tables, and draft findings for review by the onshore team.
• Prepare clear written summaries of analysis and data findings, including key trends, caveats, and open questions, for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting, data quality, and analytical processes while helping create scalable and consistent approaches to workforce measurement.
• Support data pipeline reliability by cleaning, validating, monitoring, documenting, and helping troubleshoot the data flows that feed HR analytics and reporting products.
• Perform data-quality controls, including checks for completeness, duplicates, invalid values, unexpected changes, hierarchy issues, and reconciliation differences.
• Maintain data-quality and issue logs, metric documentation, reporting inventories, and validation controls in support of the team's governance model.
• Support testing and validation following data-source, dashboard, reporting, or other analytics-product changes.
• Develop, modify, and validate Workday reports and extracts, including ad hoc data pulls and calculated fields needed for approved analytics, dashboards, discovery boards and analytical projects.
• Support dashboard and discovery board documentation, defect tracking, enhancement requests, and user acceptance testing.
• Maintain and quality-check established Power BI dashboards through data validation, refresh monitoring, testing, and controlled enhancements in partnership with the team's Power BI lead.
• Administer the team's analytics intake process by logging requests, clarifying missing information, and tracking work through completion.
• Maintain SOPs, and knowledge-transfer documentation to support consistent and reliable delivery.
• Identify opportunities to automate, standardize, or streamline manual data and reporting activities.
• Protect the confidentiality and security of sensitive employee data in accordance with applicable standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, Business, Data Analytics, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 35 years of hands‑on experience in HR data analytics, people analytics, workforce analytics, business intelligence, or a related analytical discipline.
• Demonstrated experience completing ad hoc workforce analyses from data sourcing and preparation through validation, analysis, visualization, and communication of findings.
• Demonstrated experience preparing, cleansing, transforming, validating, reconciling, and analyzing structured datasets using Excel, Workday reporting, Power BI, data‑transformation tools, or comparable technologies.
• Proven experience transforming complex or disparate HR datasets into clear, executive‑ready visualizations, dashboards, and analytical outputs that support workforce or business decisions.
• Hands‑
• Strong data‑quality, validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting experience.
• Strong analytical and critical‑thinking skills, with the ability to move from an ambigious question to a clear, validated finding.
• Strong Excel skills, including data cleaning, PivotTables, lookups, reconciliations, and quality checks.
• Working knowledge of DAX for Power BI calculations and measures.
• Experience with Workday Discovery Boards, Worksheets, dashboards, or comparable Workday analytics capabilities.
• High attention to detail and rigor in data quality, validation, and documentation.
• Strong data storytelling and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex workforce metrics into meaningful visual insights and plain‑language narratives.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities within an established intake and governance process.
• Strong accountability and discretion in handling confidential employee data.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with onshore team members across time zones.
• Experience using SQL to query, validate, reconcile, or prepare data for HR analytics, reporting dashboards, or data pipelines.
• Experience with Python or R for data preparation, analysis, automation, or advanced data modeling.
• Experience supporting data models, data transformation processes, or data pipelines, including data flows from Workday or other HR systems into enterprise analytics environments.
• Experience with enterprise cloud environments, such as Google Cloud Platform, particularly in support of data extraction, migration, integration, or pipeline processes.
• Experience supporting global HR operations or managed‑services teams.